A MAN who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings accepted undisclosed libel damages over a suggestion that there were
grounds to believe he was guilty.

Paddy Hill, who spent 16 years in prison before his conviction was
quashed in 1991, brought High Court proceedings over a reference to him
in An Anthology Of Modern Irish Poetry.

In the preface to a selection of poems by Pearse Hutchinson -
including British Justice dedicated to Mr Hill - editor Wes Davis wrote
that Mr Hill was "one of the six men accused, perhaps wrongly, of
bombing a pub in Birmingham, England".

Counsel Lucy Moorman told Mr Justice Eady in London that this was
seriously defamatory of Mr Hill and damaging to the reputation of the
Miscarriages of Justice Organisation which he had set up.

"Mr Hill fought for years to establish his innocence and to
rebuild his life and restore his good name.''

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